Counter-Strike: GO breaks its Steam concurrent-player record 11 years after launch

What simply occurred? With all the eye and constructive critiques Hogwarts Legacy is receiving, you would be forgiven for considering the sport can be topping Steam’s most-played charts. Nevertheless, that honor continues to be held by Counter-Strike: Go, which has simply damaged its concurrent-player file 11 years after launch.

PC Gamer writes that based on SteamDB‘s charts, the aggressive multiplayer FPS, which launched on August 21, 2012, hit its all-time concurrent-player file of 1,320,219 gamers on February 11, 2023, beating the earlier file of 1,308,963 gamers. That is a reasonably superb achievement, particularly contemplating that the unique Counter-Strike began as a mod for Half-Life in 1999.

The free-to-play CS:GO stays the one recreation on Steam that frequently attracts over a million concurrent gamers. It is lengthy been adopted by Dota 2 in second place, however Valve’s MOBA has discovered its place challenged for the reason that launch of Hogwart’s Legacy final week. The RPG has already reached a file 879,308 concurrents, and its participant numbers have been increased than Dota 2’s over the previous couple of days.

Regardless of its reputation, CS:GO does not maintain the title of getting essentially the most concurrent Steam gamers ever. Its new file is round half that of PUBG: Battlegrounds, which beforehand hit an all-time peak of three,257,248. Misplaced Ark’s file can also be increased than CS:GO’s, albeit by simply over 5,000 gamers. The one different two video games with concurrent-player data of over a million are Dota 2 and Cyberpunk 2077.

Rising concurrent-player data align with the growing variety of individuals utilizing Steam. In January, the variety of energetic gamers on the platform—as in, those who have been enjoying video games—reached an all-time high of 10,284,568, whereas the overall variety of individuals logged in hit 33,078,963.

We will anticipate Steam’s concurrent-user numbers to proceed to rise as Valve introduces extra options to its service. The newest of those is an overhaul of its Large Image mode. It provides a Steam Deck-style consumer interface to the characteristic, which is designed to offer PCs a console-like UI with controller help when connecting to a big TV.